from where
Asking about source
From where asks about origin or source location: From where did you get that idea?
The phrase is formal; in casual speech, word order typically inverts: Where did you come from? or Where are you from?
From where also introduces relative clauses indicating a starting point: the town from where she hailed, the balcony from where he watched the parade.
- coordinatesLocation-specifying number pairs
- birthplaceLocation of one's birth
- place of birthLocation of one's arrival
- locationPosition in space
- wherefromFrom what place
provenance · homeland · back home · hailing · neck of the woods · origin · wellspring · interrogative · region · source · ancestry · site · native land · starting point · arising · reason · territory · cause
direction of spatial/conceptual movement
from wherewhere to
Asking for destination
whither · destination · endpoint · goal
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